Mark,

Thanks for the reply. I'll have to think about this. I'm not sure I like the idea of giving a text file the extension of .XLS, when it's not really an Excel spreadsheet.

Thanks again,
Jonathan

>>Does anyone know if the COPY TO TYPE XLS still puts the field names as the first row of the spreadsheet in VFP7?
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>>Thanks,
>>Jonathan
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>Use COPY TO MYFILE.XLS DELIMITED WITH TAB